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Saturday, October 28, 2017

From the Isle of
Music, October 29-November 4:
This week, our guest is the extraordinary percussionist, bandleader, composer
and educator Ruy López-Nussa, whose DVD Repercusiones was nominated in the
Espectáculo Musical Audiovisual (Live Musical Performance) category of
Cubadisco 2017. If you are a fan of Jazz, percussion or both, you will love
this episode.
Four opportunities to listen on shortwave:
1. For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in most of the
Eastern Hemisphere (including parts of East Asia and Oceania) with 100Kw, Sunday
1500-1600 UTC on SpaceLine, 9400 KHz, from Kostinbrod, Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK)
2. For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0000-0100 UTC on WBCQ, 7490
KHz from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9PM EDT in the US)
3 & 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and Saturday
1200-1300 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany.

Polka Party!
Episode 34 of Uncle
Bill’s Melting Pot will be a New Ulm, Minnesota-style
Polka Party. New Ulm was the epicenter of a distinct Polka sound that swings.
If you think you don’t like Polkas, this might make you a convert.
Sunday, October 29 at 2200-2230 UTC (6:00pm-6:30pm EDT US) on WBCQ 7490 Khz,
for the Americas and parts of Europe.William "Bill"
Tilford, Owner/Producer, Tilford Productions, LLC

Friday, October 27, 2017

Many shortwave broadcasting stations will change frequencies this
weekend, but the frequencies and UTC times of the four Shortwave
Radiogram transmissions remain the same, and least for the time being. See the
schedule below.

Thank you to everyone who participated in last weekend’s test of
the ISO-8859-5 character set. If you have not done so, you might want to change
your Fldigi character set back to UTF-8, as that the character set we will be
using most often.

For the most part, we were able to speed up the transmission of
Russian text. For some listeners, the Cyrillic characters did not display, even
after changing to ISO-8859-5. This might be due to the lack of a necessary font
in the operating system.

From analysis by Roger in Germany, we learn that the use of
ISO-8859-5 “in Internet and in other practice is very limited.” So in our
future experiments with Russian and other Cyrillic alphabets, we might try the
CP1251 or KOI8 character sets instead.

This weekend on Shortwave Radiogram, all content will be in
MFSK32, with six images, and no unusual character sets.

Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 19, 28-29
October 2017 all in MFSK32:

The Mighty KBC
transmits to Europe
Saturdays at 1500-1600 UTC on 9400 kHz (via Bulgaria), with the minute of MFSK32 at about 1530 UTC (if you are outside of
Europe, listen via websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ ). And to North America Sundays at
0000-0200 UTC (Saturday 8-10 pm EDT) on 5960 kHz, via Germany. The minute of
MFSK32 is at about 0130 UTC. Reports to Eric: themightykbc@gmail.com . See also http://www.kbcradio.eu/ and https://www.facebook.com/TheMightyKbc/.

Italian
Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) For the complete IBC transmission schedule visit http://ibcradio.webs.com/ Five minutes of MFSK32 is at the
end of the 30-minute English-language “Shortwave Panorama,” per the schedule
below:

During
the 1800s, the wire network of telegraph stations continued to expand in many
different countries around the world, and usually each telegraph station
adopted its own identification letters, usually two letters in the relevant
alphabet.It was much quicker and easier
to tap out two letters in Morse Code rather than to spell out the geographic
name of the location, particularly where very long names were involved.

In 1872, it was decreed by maritime
regulatory organizations that each ship should identify itself with four
letters in the English alphabet.Thus it
was a simple matter for the flagmen on each ship to spell out the ship’s identification with four alphabet
flags, rather than spelling out in full the long name of the ship in flag
language.

When wireless stations began to
proliferate right at the end of the 1800s, each wireless station adopted its
own callsign, generally made up of two letters.For example,CC Cape Cod, PH San
Francisco.

The signing of protocols at the
Second Wireless Telegraphy Convention in Berlin took place on November 3, 1906
and these documents required that ship callsigns should consist of a group of
three letters.

In 1908, the Marconi company in
England required that all Marconi wireless stations on land and at sea should
begin with the letter M followed by two additional letters for local
identification.For example,MCC Cape Cod, MGY the SS Titanic.

On June 4, 1912 the papers were
signed at the International Telegraphic Conference in London and one of the
protocols was that each country throughout the world was allocated a cluster of
letters in the English alphabet with which to identify their respective
wireless stations.For example, wireless
callsigns in Great Britain would begin with the letter B or G or M, and
callsigns in France with the letter F, and American callsigns could begin with
N or W, or with K beginning at KDA.

On May 9, 1913, the United States
implemented its own system of callsigns (ultimately within the framework of its
own internationally allocated alphabetic letters).The country was divided into nine wireless
districts and thus local coverage stations were granted callsigns that
comprised a number followed by two letters.Examples: 2XG New York, 3XZ Washington DC.

An international designator was
added subsequently and the number of letters after the number was increased to
three.Examples: W2XAD Schenectady NY,
W9XAA Chicago.The X in these callsigns
indicated experimental.Four letter
callsigns for mediumwave stations were introduced in 1920 (KDKA), and similar
four letter callsigns for shortwave were introduced in 1939 (KGEI, WRUL).

Soon after the end of World War 1,
medium wave stations began to proliferate worldwide.Within continental Europe for example,
Germany was granted the prefix number 4, Switzerland was granted 9, and Great
Britain was granted 2 5 and 6 as the initial numbers for their callsigns.However, there seems to be no categorized
cluster for the use of 2 5 and 6 in Great Britain, not in chronological order
nor in geographic order.

Australia followed a similar
pattern, and each state was granted a prefix number, followed by two letters
for the station identification, such as for example: 2GB Sydney New South
Wales, 5DN Adelaide South Australia, 7NT Northern Tasmania, 9PA Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea.

At
the present time, relief and recovery are underway on the many islands in the
Caribbean that were devastated by the recent string of hurricanes that swept
through the area.However at the same
time, there is a lot of turmoil and chaos due to the destruction of so much of
the basic infrastructure in these islands, with the lack of availability of
necessities and commodities, such as food, water, gasoline,electricity, and even satisfactory
accommodation.

In today’s edition of the AWR DX program Wavescan,
we again focus on the radio scene in the Caribbean as a tribute to the people
who live in these islandic countries.We
present our opening topic under the title, International Shortwave Broadcasting
in the Caribbean Islands, the story of six major shortwave stations in the
Caribbean, and we begin with the earliest, Radio Antilles on the Island of
Montserrat.

On April 20, 1963, the Radio
Antilles Corporation was formed, and five months later the government granted a
radio broadcasting license.Much of the
electronic equipment for the Montserrat station came from the previous Radio
Africa in Tangier, Morocco and it was installed and operated with co-operation
from the staff of Radio Andorra in Europe.

Some eight years later (1971), Radio
Deutsche Welle DW in Germany injected a massive cash flow into Radio Antilles,
and as a major shareholder/new owner of the station they took over the
operation of the large facility.When DW
engineers arrived on Montserrat in 1971, they found two shortwave transmitters
at 15 kW each already installed.They
soon afterwards installed an additional shortwave transmitter at 50 kW among
the medium wave transmitters on the ground floor of the two story building on
the lower south west coast of the island of Montserrat.

In
March 1977, Radio Antilles was taken into regular service as a relay station
for the programming of Deutsche Welle in Cologne Germany and for the BBC in
London England.However, just four years
later (1981), the BBC withdrew from their usage of Radio Antilles, and eight
years later again (1989), Deutsche Welle Montserrat was closed.Soon afterwards, the electronic equipment was
removed from the isolated country building, and the building was ultimately
inundated by lava overflow from a nearby volcano, so much so, that the exact
location of the building is now indiscernible.

However at the same time as Radio
Antilles was under development as a relay station for Deutsche Welle and the
BBC, a new joint operation was under installation on the nearby island of
Antigua.The development of this new
international shortwave relay station was staged under the auspices of a joint
holding company, the Caribbean Relay Company.

After a series of surveys on several
of the Leeward and Windward Islands, Antigua was chosen because of its
strategic location, together with sufficiently level ground that would be
satisfactory for a large antenna farm.A
tract of land, 240 acres, was procured near Seaview Farm in the center of the
island of Antigua.

The
BBC designed and constructed the transmitter station, they installed 4 Marconi
transmitters at 250 kW each Model BD272, and they erected 7 antenna towers
supporting 18 curtain antennas.The
locally available electrical power was somewhat unreliable, so the BBC
installed 5 electrical power generators, each a Ruston at 1 megawatt, which was
sufficient to power the entire station with 1 always available on standby.

The first transmitter was taken into
service on November 1, 1976, and the other three were activated during the
following year (1977).Original
planning called for 2 transmitters and 9 antennas each, for the BBC and
DW.However, as the scheduling was
developed and implemented as time went by, it appears that the programming of
both shortwave organizations, the BBC and DW, was carried by all 4 of the
transmitters, though at approximately half time each.

Due to budget cuts, the BBC-DW relay
station on Antigua was closed on March 26, 2005.Initially, the Caribbean Relay Station
endeavored to find other clients who were willing to broadcast to the Americas
from their shortwave station.However,
there are no known additional relays from the Antigua station, and all that we
can presume is that all usable equipment was removed and the property was sold
off.

We cross over now to the Dutch
islands in the Caribbean, and in particular to Curacao and Bonaire.Around the year 1960, Trans World Radio TWR
gave consideration to constructing a large shortwave/mediumwave station on the island
of Curacao.However, the entire project
was soon afterwards transferred to the nearby island of Bonaire.

Construction at TWR Bonaire began in
September 1963, and the first test broadcasts on shortwave began almost a year
later in August 1964.The very first
shortwave frequency for the new TWR
was 5955 kHz under the official Dutch callsign PJB.

Beginning in November 1964, the new
Bonaire shortwave station broadcast the programming from Trans World Radio and
it also relayed programming from Radio Netherlands in Hilversum Holland.However, Radio Netherlands ended their relay
via TWR soon after their own shortwave station on Bonaire was inaugurated.

On June 30, 1993, TWR closed down
the usage of their two shortwave transmitters on Bonaire, one at 50 kW and
another at 250 kW, and shipped them off to Swaziland for incorporation into
their African shortwave station.However, in various configurations, a mediumwave station at TWR has
remained on the air on Bonaire, and the space that was previously occupied by
the shortwave transmitters now houses power generators that provide electricity
for the island.

Test transmissions from the new
relay station operated by Radio Netherlands on the island of Bonaire began in
March 1969.At the height of its total
capability RN Bonaire contained 3 shortwave transmitters at 250/300 kW, 21
antennas on 17 towers, and 6 power generators at 500 kW each.

However, with the changing winds of
fortune in the international shortwave world, Radio Netherlands Bonaire was closed
on June 30, 2012.The station was
totally dismantled and all that remains of this once majestic shortwave station
is just an open field.

Radio Havana Cuba was organized as a
government operated international shortwave facility in 1963.At that stage, 4 shortwave transmitters at
100 kW were installed at their shortwave station at Bauta near Havana, 2 from
Russia and 2 from BBC (Brown Boveri Company) Switzerland.These days, Radio Havana Cuba operates a total
of 3 shortwave sites with 16 shortwave transmitters rated at 50 kW, 100 kW and
250 kW.

The shortwave station known as the
Caribbean Beacon is located on the island of Anguilla, a small British island
in the eastern Caribbean.In June 1991,
Dr. Gene Scott bought the mediumwave station Caribbean Beacon, and he installed
a new Continental 100 kW shortwave transmitter at the same Sandy Hill
site.The antenna system was previously
in use with shortwave KGEI at Belmont in California.

The new shortwave Caribbean Beacon
was inaugurated in December 1996, though it was hounded by subsequent local
fears about radiation problems for more than a year.During the year 2008, the shortwave station
previously on the air under the callsigns KUSW and then KTBN was closed and the
electronic equipment was shipped to Anguilla for incorporation into the
Caribbean Beacon.

As we mentioned previously here in
Wavescan, the Caribbean Beacon was damaged in the recent hurricanes that swept
through the Caribbean islands.The
station has since been noted back on the air with test broadcasts, and it is
doing its best to maintain its international shortwave service.

This has been the story of six
international shortwave stations in the Caribbean.A total of four have come and gone: Deutsche
Welle-BBC Montserrat and Antigua, Trans World Radio and Radio Netherlands on
Bonaire.Two still remain: Radio Havana
Cuba with 16 transmitters, and the Caribbean Beacon on Anguilla with 1 at 100
kW, hanging on tenuously after the onslaught of the recent hurricanes.

For
the past nearly one hundred years, the history of the medium wave station 8ZZ-KDKA
in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania has been closely linked with the broadcast of voting
results for the American presidential campaign in November 1920.This event was the grand occasion for the
inauguration of the now historic medium wave broadcasting station KDKA on
November 2.

A major result of this programming
emphasis in 1920 catapulted KDKA to an all time historic high.Even though KDKA was not chronologically the
first radio broadcasting station on the air in the United States, yet their
inaugural broadcast on November 2, 1920 is seen without doubt as a major
turning point in the progressive development of radio broadcasting, not only in
the United States, but also right throughout the world.

However, it is not so well known,
that a large number of other radio stations in the United States have also
broadcast the progressive count of voting results in American presidential
campaigns, not only at the same time as the KDKA event in 1920, but also during
earlier campaigns as well.In our
program today, we investigate the usage of radio in giving wide coverage to
voting counts in presidential campaigns way back a hundred years ago.

From the middle of the 1800s
onwards, the nationwide network of wire telegraph systems in the United States
began to grow, as did also the transmission of news and information in Morse
Code, including progressive figures in presidential voting every four
years.When wireless telegraph stations
were installed in various areas across the nation, then presidential voting news
was also transmitted, sometimes informally, sometimes officially.

During the year 1910, the New York
Herald newspaper established a wireless station in the United States Barge
Office at The Battery in New York City, which operated on longwave 640 metres
(470 kHz) under the self chosen informal call sign OHX.A contemporary photograph in the New York
Herald showed the antenna system at station OHX stretched across a wide street
between two buildings.

The main purpose for establishing
station OHX was for the transmission of daily bulletins of newspaper news in
Morse Code for the benefit of other newspapers.In addition to the broadcast of these daily news bulletins from wireless
station OHX in New York City, two other longwave wireless stations also carried
a relay of these same transmissions.

These two additional relay stations,
both Marconi stations, were station CC across the waterway from Cape Cod Boston
in Massachusetts, and station PH at Hillcrest in San Francisco California.The program feed in Morse Code was carried by
the regular landline telegraph system from station OHX in New York City to station CC in Boston and to station
PH in San Francisco.

The presidential campaign during the
year 1912 was a strange four way contest, though the main contenders were the
governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson and the previous president Theodore
Roosevelt.Wilson won that race with a
landslide victory.

The New York Herald wireless station
OHX provided wide area coverage of the progressive vote counts as they came in,
beginning in the evening of Tuesday November 5, 1912.Other wireless stations that carried similar
progressive news information in Morse Code were two navy wireless stations;
station NAD in Building 10 at the Massachusetts
Navy Yard in Charlestown Massachusetts and station NPH on Mare Island
California.

The amateur station 1AF at Harvard
University in Massachusetts, acknowledged as a control station in the Boston
area in 1912, also sent out the November election results in Morse Code.

However, for the first time ever,
the progressive vote count was presented live by voice, from the Charles
Herrold broadcasting station in San Jose California.Just a few months earlier, during the evening
of July 22, 1912, Herrold had begun a regular series of radio program
broadcasts over his self-made 15 watt Arcphone longwave transmitter, operating
without call sign at the time, just below 600 metres (500 kHz).

This new transmitter was installed
with the Herrold College of
Wireless and Engineering in the Garden City Bank Building at the corner of
First and West San Fernando Streets in downtown San Jose, which itself is a
conjoined city on the southern edge of San Francisco in California.The wireless station, with its water-cooled
microphone, was installed on the top floor of the seven storied bank
building.The longwave antenna system,
described as a carpet aerial, was made up of two miles of bronze wire which was
strung like an umbrella from the Garden City Bank Building across three other
adjoining buildings.

On the occasion of the broadcast of
the voting returns for the presidential election on November 5, 1912, the
University of California in nearby Berkeley on the eastern shore of San
Francisco Bay set up a receiver in their gymnasium so that students could hear
the progressive news counts.Although
not claimed as such, this was the first occasion in which the progressive
voting results were broadcast by voice in the United States.

Four years later, there was another
presidential election in the United States, and on this occasion, November 7,
1916, contemporary newspaper reports state that several thousand amateur radio
listeners heard the progressive news counts.The 1916 election campaign was fought between the incumbent President
Woodrow Wilson and Supreme
Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes.As
the counting figures came in, the tallies ebbed and flowed between President
Wilson & Justice Hughes.

A few days prior to the election day
voting, radio inventor Lee de Forest installed a radio broadcasting station at
his Highbridge Laboratory at 1391 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx New York.This pioneer longwave radio broadcasting
station was licensed under the call sign 2XG and it emitted 125 watts on 800 metres
(375 kHz).The first test broadcast
from the new 2XG was transmitted on the evening of October 26, 1916, and
regular programming began just a week later on November 1.With
the presidential campaign in its final stages, and World War 1 in Europe
already two years old, there was much to report, although America dod not enter
that war until six months later onApril
6, 1917.Initial programming from 2XG at
that stage was made up of music from Columbia disc recordings together with
news and information from the morning daily newspaper, the New York American.

Just a week later again on November
7 (1916), the new broadcasting station 2XG carried progressive reports on the
voting counts from the offices of the New York American, up until 11:00
pm.Just before closing for the night,
station 2XG announced mistakenly that Justice Charles Hughes had won the
election.However, subsequent late
returns from California swung the election results in favor of President
Wilson, a fact that was made known early next day.

Several contemporary newspaper
reports stated that many thousands of amateur radio operators heard the news
reports from station 2XG, and of course many of these radio operators also
rebroadcast the news further afield from their own amateur radio stations.The Electrical Experimenter magazine declared
that 7,000 amateur radio operators heard the news from station 2XG, and the
estimate from the New York American newspaper stated that 8,000 amateur radio
operators heard this news from the same station 2XG.

This figure, 7,000 or 8,000 amateur
radio operators, may sound a bit like a newspaper exaggeration.Maybe it was, but at that time, the
Commissioner of Navigation in an official report stated that there was a total
of 15,868 licensed amateur radio operators in the United States; double the
listenership that this newspaper was claiming.

The New York American declared
triumphantly: It was the first time in the history of this wonderful world of
ours that such a thing could be done.For the first time, the wireless telephone has been demonstrated as a
practical, serviceable carrier of election news and comment.

Of course, that is not true; the 2XG
broadcasts in 1916 were not the first election results that were broadcast in
the voice mode.Aswe know, Professor Charles Herrold in San
Jose California broadcast election reports by voice in the 1912 presidential
campaign, four years earlier than station 2XG in New York in 1916.

We should also mention that a
competitor radio station, the New York Herald station WHB (ex OHX) also carried
its own programming of election results during that same 1916 presidential
race.

So, apparently several hundred, if
not thousands, of radio stations have broadcast presidential election results
in the years before the famous KDKA in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania performed a
similar service in 1920.Does that
dethrone KDKA from its illustrious place in radio history?No, not at all.Station KDKA played a pivotal role in the
development of radio broadcasting in the United States, and that honor can
never be removed from KDKA and given to another.

Monday, October 23, 2017

We encourage our listeners to tell us when they receive our transmissions. Your reception reports help us evaluate the quality of our signal strength and are always confirmed with an RFA QSL card. Please find mailing instructions below the frequency table.

Effective 29 October 2017 through 28 March 2018

All times and dates are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

You can either email your reception reports to us at qsl@rfa.org, submit online using our automated reception report system at http://techweb.rfa.org (follow the QSL link), or send them to us by regular mail to:Reception ReportsRadio Free Asia 2025 M Street N.W., Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036United States of America
(A.J. Janitschek/RFA)

Solar activity was at very low levels with the exception of 20 Oct when an M1 flare was observed on the southeastern limb. The M1 flare occurred at 20/2328 UTC from Region 2685 (S09, L=131, class/area Hax/070 on 22 Oct) with an associated Type II (344 km/s) radio sweep and a coronal mass ejection (CME) off the east limb first observed at 21/0012 UTC in SOHO/LASCO C2 imagery. By the time Region 2685 rotated fully into view, it was a simple alpha spot group and has been quiet since the M-class event. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed during the period.

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached moderate levels on 20 and 22 Oct with high levels on 16, 19 and 21 Oct. Very high levels were observed on 17-18 Oct. The largest flux of the period was 56,839 pfu observed at 17/1535 UTC.

Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels. The period began under the weakening influence of a polar connected, positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). The solar wind speed declined from approximately 550 km/s early in the period to near 350 km/s by late on 18 Oct. Total field was at 5 nT and below during this timeframe. The geomagnetic field responded with quiet to unsettled levels on 16 Oct and quiet levels on 17-18 Oct. By 19 Oct, a weak connection with the positive polarity polar CH was observed resulting in a brief increase of solar wind speed to near 470 km/s and total field at 10 nT. Solar wind speed again decreased to nominal levels by early on 21 Oct. The geomagnetic field responded with quiet to unsettled levels on 19 Oct and quiet to active levels on 20 Oct. A solar sector boundary crossing into a negative sector was observed at 21/0730 UTC followed by a weak enhancement from a negative polarity CH HSS. The solar wind speed increased to near 490 km/s late on 21 Oct with total field increasing to near 10 nT. By late on 22 Oct, solar wind parameters had once again decreased to nominal levels. The geomagnetic field responded with quiet to unsettled levels on 21-22 Oct.

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 23 October - 18 November 2017

Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels with a slight chance for M-class flares (R1-Minor) on 23-06 Nov due to potential flare activity from Region 2685 and the return of old Region 2683 (N13, L=111) to the visible disk. From 07-18 Nov, only very low levels are expected.

No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is likely to be at high levels on 25-26 Oct, 28 Oct-01 Nov, 08-10 Nov, 12 Nov, 15 Nov and 17 Nov with very high levels on 27 Oct, 11 Nov and13-14 Nov due to CH HSS influence.

Saturday, October 21, 2017

From the Isle of
Music, October 22-28
No interviews this week, rather, we will explore the Electronic &
Electronic-Acoustic Music category of Cubadisco 2017 plus listen to some
excellent Cuban Jazz from the early 2000s.
Four opportunities to listen on shortwave:
1. For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in most of the
Eastern Hemisphere (including parts of East Asia and Oceania) with 100Kw,
Sunday 1500-1600 UTC on SpaceLine, 9400 KHz, from Kostinbrod, Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK)2. For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday
0000-0100 UTC on WBCQ, 7490 KHz from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9PM EDT in
the US)3 & 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday
1900-2000 UTC and Saturday 1200-1300 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from
Rohrbach, Germany.

Soul Masala......
Episode 33 of Uncle
Bill's Melting Pot will be mostly some excellent
Indian/Soul/Jazz fusion with the usual surprise or two on the side. This will
be different.
Sunday, October 22 at 2200-2230 UTC (6:00pm-6:30pm EDT US) on WBCQ 7490 Khz, for
the Americas and parts of Europe.William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer, Tilford Productions, LLC

Friday, October 20, 2017

I received very few reports of last weekend’s Thor 25x4 providing
a better decode than our usual MFSK32, despite the 2-second interleave of Thor 25x4.
One of those reports was from Zach in Alabama (above).

This weekend Shortwave Radiogram will be all MFSK32, but we will
experiment with the ISO-8859-5 character set. In our usual UTF-8 character set,
when we transmit Cyrillic text, e.g. Russian, the speed of the printout is
reduced by half. With the ISO-8859-5 character set, Cyrillic prints out at the
same speed (120 wpm using MFSK32) as English.

So please adjust Fldigi: Configure > UI > Colors & Fonts
> change Rx/Tx Character set to ISO-8859-5. In ISO-8859-5 you will see both
the English and Russian text. In UTF-8 (Fldigi’s default), only the English.

Unfortunately, in Android, the TIVAR and AndFlmsg apps have only
the UTF-8 character set, so the Russian text will not be visible. Less than 3 minutes
of the program is devoted to the Russian text.

And keep in mind that you can record Shortwave Radiogram and
decode from the recording, trying different settings.

Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 18, 21-22 October
2017, all in MFSK32:

1:31Program preview

3:21US worried about independent media in
Hungary*10:51Excerpt of Russian
text from Deutsche Welle13:55New amateur radio
station at BBC Broadcasting House*19:23QST review of new
Icom IC-R8600 receiver*21:34DW.com feature on
best mountain photos*24:45DW.com feature on
autumn leaves*27:05Closing announcements* with image

The Mighty KBC
transmits to Europe
Saturdays at 1500-1600 UTC on 9400 kHz (via Bulgaria), with the minute of MFSK
at about 1530 UTC (if you are outside of Europe, listen via websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ ). And to North America Sundays at 0000-0200 UTC
(Saturday 8-10 pm EDT) on 5960 kHz, via Germany. The minute of MFSK is at about
0130 UTC. Reports to Eric: themightykbc@gmail.com . See also http://www.kbcradio.eu/ and https://www.facebook.com/TheMightyKbc/.

Italian
Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) For the complete IBC transmission schedule visit http://ibcradio.webs.com/ Five minutes of MFSK32 is at the
end of the 30-minute English-language “Shortwave Panorama,” per the schedule
below: